confessable
\kɔ̃.fɛ.sabl\
The verdict
“confessable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être confessé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confessable · confessable · French
confessable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confessable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɛ.sabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
confessable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.fɛ.sabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
confessable has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is confessable, spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être confessé.
- 2Qui peut être avoué ; avouable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confessable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une horrible chose que d’être dans la faiblesse et la misère, sans avoir d’acte ni de pensée où elles se marquent ; c’est une dilution d’infirmité, qui ne cristallise pas en faute confessable.
Je n’ai pas commis un seul péché confessable, techniquement parlant.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.